#John Kennish

[there-are-many-ways-to-smile]

Katherine accusing Bay of putting Daphne up to get money from them to help Emmett keep his bike was messed up. Like yes Bay is dating him however Daphne has known him longer than her and ultimately it would have been more so her idea

#bay kennish #switched at birth #John Kennish #Kathryn Kennish #daphne vasquez

[magggg202]

Watching Switched at birth again and I just. Ugh they were perfect. I liked her and Emmett too. But TY!!!!

#switched at birth #bay kennish #ty mendosa #daphne Vasquez #Regina Vasquez #John kennish #kathryn kennish #toby kennish #abc family

[quinnfebrey]

john kennish continues to be on the long list of fictional men i would kill with my bare hands at any given opportunity

#* #i hate the man i really do #switched at birth

[oceanmusings]

Fandoms

I'm pretty chill when it comes to roleplays, some days I can't plot or be able to reply, but eventually I will respond to you!

If you want the same love interest as me we can instead just do like AU type universe instead, if you really don't want to I can find a different Love Interest (but some fandom's I won't be flexible)

the amount of ♥ is how much I am interested on rping it.

♥ - 1 (not interested)

♥ - 5 (absolutely would)

-cinema-

Marvel Universe | ♥♥♥

Status - watched most of the shows and movies, working on netflix shows (currently on "Jessica Jones, season 2") (9/23)

Notes - Won't write for any of the protagonist, this doesn't include the anti-heros. And I won't write for Yelena romantically, since she is aroace. Only platonically.

Claimed - Tom!Peter Parker, Michelle "MJ" Jones-Watson :: paired with Charlotte "Charlie" D'Angelo (fc, vaness marano) || Andrew!Peter Parker :: paired with Charlotte "Lottie" D'Angelo (fc, emmy rossum)

Star Wars | ♥

Status - Watched all the movies, The Mandalorian, Kenobi, and Andor. I haven't watched the clone wars or played all the games, so my knowledge is limited.

Notes - Won't write for villains, like Darth Vader (not Anakin)

Claimed - Rey Skywalker :: paired with unknown || Cassian Andor :: 0aired with Addimaev Carric (fc, daniella pineda) || Obi-wan Kenobi :: paired with unknown

Harry Potter | ♥♥♥♥

Status - read all the books and movies (except for the last fantastic beast movie, I refuse for obvious reasons)

Notes - I don't condone anything JK or some of the actors have done. I will shit talk and make this fandom my own and anything we do for the rp that will piss of JK is okay for me. But also I refuse to write Severus Snape, Voldemort, or Barty Crouch. Mainly any Death Eaters (Draco doesn't count since I like giving him a redemption arc and believe his dad forced him)

Claimed - George Weasley :: paired with Anna Diggory (fc, liza weil) || Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter :: paired with Karina Carter (fc, zendaya) || Fleur Delacour :: paired with Athena Owens (fc, jenny walser)

Marauders Era | ♥♥♥

Status - Gimmie all the headcanons, I will accept anything.

Notes - I won't write for Peter, mainly cause I just don't know him. IF you really want me to, send me things you like about him (like headcanons, fanfic, tiktok's) to help me get his vibe.

Claimed - Remus Lupin :: paired with Devyn Edwards (fc, eliza scanlen) || Sirius Black :: paired with Reese Sudsworth (fc, joseph quinn) || James Potter :: paired with Ava-Rose Wyatt (fc, holland roden)

-tv-

Daisy Jones and the Six | ♥♥♥

Status - Completed both the book and the show!

Notes - I will write for anyone

Claimed - Karen Sirko or Graham Dunne :: paired with Talia Montgomery (fc, zooey deschanel) || Daisy Jones :: paired with Andrew "Andy" Foster (fc, billy crudup)

Shadow and Bone Series | ♥♥

Status - Completed the show, read the Shadow and Bone books and the first Six of Crows book.

Claimed - Nikolai Lantsov :: paired with Elisa Volkov (fc, mathilde ollivier) || Genya Safin :: paired with Stafford Lantsov (fc, harrison osterfield)

Gilmore Girls | ♥♥♥♥

Status - Completed a thousand times, I technically have never seen the last season tho.

Notes - I'll write anyone.

Claimed - Paris Geller :: paired with Eloise Gilmore (fc, talia ryder) || Jess Mariano :: paired with unknown

Switched at Birth | ♥

Status - Currently on season 4 (9/23)

Notes - Will not write for John Kennish

Claimed - Tobey Kennish :: paired with Cora Shepard (fc, hayley williams) || Kathryn Kennish :: paired with Adalia Parker (fc, holly marie combs)

Charmed | ♥

Status - Have watched the originally many times, I haven't read the comics or watched the reboot.

Notes - n/a

Claimed - Paige Matthews :: paired with unknown

X-Files | ♥

Status - Currently on season 7 (9/23), and have never seen the movies either.

Notes - Will not write any antagonist (like the smoking man)

Claimed - Dana Scully :: paired with unknown || Fox Mulder :: paired with unknown

Teen Wolf | ♥

Status - Have finished the show to the point Stiles and Scott leave, wont go any further. (I trust Kai's judgment)

Notes - Won't write for Peter.

Claimed - Allison Argent :: paired with Adam Dorian (fc, milo ventimiglia) || Lydia Martin :: paired with Avery Primula (fc, sarah ramos) || Derek Hale :: paired with Sadie Price (fc, meghan ory)

Stranger Things | ♥♥♥♥♥

Status - Have watched all the seasons many times. Currently reading the books!

Notes - I won't write for Billy

Claimed - Robin Buckley :: paired with Daisy Hopper (fc, florence pugh) || Steve Harrington :: paired with Paige Evans (fc, kate hudson) || Robin Buckley :: paired with Vivianne Owens (fc, talia ryder) || Will Byers :: paired with Francis Levin (fc, aiden gallagher)

Supernatural | ♥♥♥♥♥

Status - Completed, have not watched "The Winchesters" (9/23)

Notes - n/a

Claimed - Dean Winchester, Charlie Bradbury :: paired with Lori Holt (fc, krysten ritter) || Sam Winchester, Castiel :: paired with Virginia "Gigi" Rivers (fc, alyssa marano) || Bela Talbot :: paired with Beau Rivers (fc, colin o'donoghue)

The Walking Dead | ♥♥♥♥

Status - Currently on season 8 (9/23)

Notes - Won't write for Negan or Merle

Claimed - Michoone Hawthorne, Daryl Dixon :: paired with Jennifer "JD" Moore (fc, jodie comer)

Criminal Minds | ♥♥♥♥♥

Status - Currently on season 14 (9/23)

Notes - n/a

Claimed - Spencer Reid :: paired with Arwen Valentine (fc, imogen poots) || Emily Prentiss :: paired with Michaela "Mika" Briggs (fc, tatiana maslany) || Any :: paired with Dana Hart (fc, deborah ann woll)

-literature-

Percy Jackson | ♥

Status - Currently on House of Hades (9/23)

Notes - Won't write for Luke

Claimed - Percy Jackson :: paired with Arely Wesseck (fc, natalia dyer)

The Raven Cycle | ♥

Status - Completed. Have not read Call Down The Hawk. (4/23)

Notes - n/a

Claimed - Richard Gansey, Blue Sargent :: paired with unknown

The Diviners Series | ♥

Status - Currently on The King of Crows (4/23)

Notes - Will not write for Jake Marlowe.

Claimed - Mempis Campbell :: paired with unknown || Sam Lloyd :: paired with unknown

-video games-

Detroit: Become Human | ♥♥♥

Status - Completed most endings.

Notes - Will not write Richard Perkins.

Claimed - Connor RK800, Markus RK200 :: paired with Alizarin Morgan (fc, suzy berhow)

Heavy Rain | ♥♥

Status - Completed, have seen 2 endings.

Notes - Will not write Scott Shelby

Claimed - Norman Jayden :: paired with unknown

Life Is Strange | ♥♥♥

Status - Completed, have seen both endings.

Notes - I have only played Life Is Strange and Life Is Strange Before The Storm. I also won't write for David.

Claimed - Chloe Price :: paired with unknown

Red Dead Redemption | ♥♥♥♥♥

Status - Completed both games. Only seen high honor.

Notes - I won't write for Micah Bell, Bill Williamson, and Hosea Matthews.

Claimed - Arthur Morgan :: paired with Emmaline Nielson (fc, jessica brown findlay) || Sadie Adler :: paired with Delilah Matthews (fc, rosamund pike)

The Last of Us | ♥♥♥♥♥

Status - Completed both games and show!

Notes - I will not tolerate Abby slander

Claimed - Joel Miller :: paired with Fiona Kelley (fc, molly parker) || Abigail "Abby" Anderson :: Camilla Miller (fc, unknown)

-anime-

Fruits Basket | ♥♥♥♥

Status - Completed the reboot

Notes - N/A

Claimed - Sohma Yuki or Hanajima Saki :: paired with Tamaki Sayuri (fc, rinka urushiba)

Cowboy Bebop | ♥

Status - Completed both the show and live action

Notes - N/A

Claimed - Spike Spiegel or Faye Valentine :: paired with unknown

Spy X Family | ♥♥♥

Status - Watched up to season 2!

Notes - Willing to do just 1x1

Claimed - Yor Forger :: paired with unknown

#fandoms #roleplay

[phantompoguefangirl]

Rewatching Switched At Birth AGAIN.

One really frustrating thing that I haven't seen many people talk about is that there are several times where it is brought up that Carlton School is struggling financially and the Kennishes witness them lose programs and the school itself almost close, but yet NOT ONCE do they offer to donate money to the school BOTH THEIR DAUGHTERS GO TO.

John gets so upset when they cut the basketball team but then a few episodes later complains about how much money he gives to Buckner sports or whatever. Like DUDE ARE YOU DENSE??? You have one child still attending the rich white people school and he gives exactly zero fucks about going there so what are you even giving them the money for?

And Bay remarks that Kathryn could fund raise $5,000 out of mission hills in minutes but yet she never thinks to fund raise for Carlton? Even when she is literally at the school fighting to keep the play going? Not once does this ever occur to her??

I know it is mentioned in the episode where Daphne talks to the school board that the board is just full of bigots who only give money to the schools they favor but the Kennishes had so much power and could have done so much but they didn't and it makes me so upset.

To be fair, I guess we wouldn't have had the occupy carlton storyline if they had helped and that storyline was SO important for Deaf representation and raising awareness for how Deaf people are treated in the educational system.

But still. John and Kathryn suck for being rich and not using it to help Carlton.

#yes im watching switched at birth again #switched at birth freeform #switched at birth abc family #switched at birth #bay kennish #Daphne vasquez #Carlton school for the deaf #Carlton now carlton forever

[eulascl]

Switched at birth season 5 episode 1 youtube

SWITCHED AT BIRTH SEASON 5 EPISODE 1 YOUTUBE SERIES

It is a running gag on the show that Adriana likes to watch telenovelas, and she quips that they cannot compete with the real-life drama caused by Angelo. Ivonne Coll as Adriana Vasquez, Regina's mother.Marlee Matlin as Melody Bledsoe, Emmett's mother and Regina's friend who is also deaf.Gilles Marini as Angelo Sorrento (recurring season 1, regular season 2–3): Bay's biological father and Daphne's legal father.Lea Thompson as Kathryn Kennish: Bay's legal mother and Daphne's biological mother.Moffett as John Kennish: Bay's legal father and Daphne's biological father. Constance Marie as Regina Vasquez: Bay's biological mother and Daphne's legal mother.However, she gradually gets better in accepting that Regina and the Kennishes are both her family. Bay can be very impulsive at times, and, at first, does not take the news of the switch well. Bay is a very talented artist who has a particular love for Frida Kahlo. She was raised in the wealthy neighborhood of Mission Hills by John and Kathryn Kennish. Vanessa Marano as Bay Madeline Kennish: the biological daughter of Regina Vasquez and Angelo Sorrento.She also speaks without the accent through almost the entire episode 15 of season 2, "Ecce Mono", which is an alternative reality in which Daphne was raised by the Kennishes from age three and got a cochlear implant. She developed a deaf accent for her role as Daphne, but speaks without it briefly in a scene in season 1, episode 9 where Daphne dreams the switch never occurred, and she was raised as Bay Kennish and retains her hearing. Hard of hearing rather than deaf, Leclerc learned ASL at age 17, before she was diagnosed at age 20 with Ménière's disease which runs in her family. Katie Leclerc as Daphne Paloma Vasquez: the biological daughter of John and Kathryn Kennish.Lucas Grabeel as Toby Kennish: Bay and Daphne's older brother.Sean Berdy as Emmett Bledsoe (regular season 1–4, recurring season 5), Daphne's best friend who is also deaf.Bay is driven by a need to find her biological father, Angelo Sorrento, who left Regina shortly after Daphne went deaf. John learns to relate to his new-found daughter by coaching her deaf school's basketball team and employing her in the office of one of the local chain of car washes that he owns. Both mothers learn to bond with their biological daughters, while often unintentionally angering the ones they raised. Bay discovers that she has inherited her artistic talent from Regina, and Daphne discovers she has inherited John's athletic skill and Kathryn's love of cooking. The girls sometimes struggle with their identities. This arrangement forces the girls, along with both families, to understand their differences and embrace their similarities. The Kennishes invite Daphne and Regina to their home, and after learning that Regina is struggling financially, propose that they move into their guest house with Adriana, an offer that Regina accepts. Daphne is deaf, having lost her hearing as a result of contracting meningitis at age three. It is revealed that the hospital mistakenly switched Bay at birth with Daphne, who has been raised by her single mother Regina and grandmother Adriana in the low-income neighborhood of East Riverside, Missouri. Genetic testing confirms Bay is not the Kennishes' biological daughter. Main article: List of Switched at Birth episodesīay Kennish, a teenage girl living in the Kansas City suburb of Mission Hills, Kansas, discovers from a school lab assignment that her blood type is incompatible with that of her parents. In October 2016, the network announced that the final season would premiere on January 31, 2017. On March 19, 2016, it was announced that the fifth season was bumped from a March 2016 to a January 2017 premiere date.

SWITCHED AT BIRTH SEASON 5 EPISODE 1 YOUTUBE SERIES

On October 21, 2015, ABC Family (now rebranded as Freeform) confirmed the series had been renewed for its fifth season, which was later confirmed to be the final season. On August 13, 2014, ABC Family renewed the series for a fourth season, which premiered on January 6, 2015. The series won an honorary Peabody Award in 2013, and on July 30, ABC Family ordered a third season which premiered on January 13, 2014. The show's debut was ABC Family's highest-rated series debut to date. According to ABC Family, it is "the first mainstream television series to have multiple deaf and hard-of-hearing series regulars and scenes shot entirely in American Sign Language (ASL)". The one-hour scripted drama is set in the Kansas City metropolitan area, and revolves around two teenagers who were switched at birth and grew up in very different environments: one in an affluent suburb, and the other in a working-class neighborhood. Switched at Birth is an American teen/family drama television series that premiered on ABC Family on June 6, 2011. Productions (from "This Is The Color Of My Dreams")

#Switched at birth season 5 episode 1 youtube

[jjsstars]

♡ Character List ♡

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Criminal Minds:

Sean Hotchner

Aaron Hotchner

Jennifer Jareau

Derek Morgan

Spencer Reid

Emily Prentiss

Alex Blake

David Rossi

Luke Alvez

Tara Lewis

Penelope Garcia

Teen Wolf:

Scott McCall

Allison Argent

Stiles Stilinski

Melissa McCall

Chris Argent

Noah Stilinski

Theo Raeken

Lydia Martin

Kira Yukimura

Liam Dunbar

Mason Hewitt

Hayden Romero

Derek Hale

Peter Hale

Cora Hale

Switched at Birth:

Toby Kennish

Bay Kennish

James Wilke

Daphne Vasquez

Regina Vasquez

Kathryn Kennish

John Kennish

Stranger things: (not currently writing)

Steve Harrington

Max Mayfield

Nancy Wheeler

Mike Wheeler

Eleven Hopper

Will Byers

Robin Buckley

Eddie Munson

Lucas Sinclair

Johnathan Byers

S.W.A.T: (not currently writing)

Jim Street

Dan “Hondo” Harrelson

Chris Alonso

Victor Tan

David “Deacon” Kay

Dominque Luca

Alexis Cabrera

Zoe Powell

Molly Hicks

Nichelle

#jj navigates

[homosandhomies]

Interesting facts on the third draft of the Switched at Birth pilot:

It originally took place in Austin, Texas

Kathryn’s original name was Kristen

Bay and Toby have an 11-year-old brother named Luke

Luke takes Daphne on the house tour and she teaches him how to sign “wow” “creepy” “crazy” “stupid” “poo” “boobs” and a bunch of other words throughout the episode

Daphne generally signs a lot more to the Kennishes

Daphne’s on the track team instead of basketball, and she’s part of the student council and honors society

The line “It’s her hears that don’t work, not her brain” was originally “She’s deaf, John, not [r-word]”

John was a professional golfer instead of a baseball player

Instead of playing basketball with Toby she plays golf with John

Adrianna calls Regina “Reggie”

Melody is a gay man named Penn

Bay and Liam never dated, but he does have his scene with Daphne at Buckner

There’s a scene where Bay and Simone are hanging out and Bay makes fun of the way Daphne speaks and signs

Bay gets arrested for driving without a liscence because Simone was too drunk, not for buying beer with a fake ID

Daphne’s too emotional to speak orally during the scene in the kitchen with her and Regina, so she just signs

Bay calls Daphne her “swister” in the bedroom scene

Regina isn’t behind on rent, so they only move in to get to know each other

#i love how the sab is just me and 2 other ppl #hey girlies :) #switched at birth #sab #summer says stuff #kathryn kennish #bay kennish #toby kennish #ableism cw #john kennish #daphne vasquez #regina vasquez #adrianna vasquez #liam lupo #simone sinclair

[wreyeder]

Honestly the difference between Angelo and John's reaction to their secret paternity tests tells a lot. Each of them secretly took a test and got a negative result but only one left and the other stayed. That says a lot about their personalities.

#john kennish #angelo sorrento #switched at birth

[there-are-many-ways-to-smile]

I can't really comment on Bay being a brat or not. Although I'm rewatching it's only certain episodes. However I think it was pretty selfless of her to share her parents, there were never scenes well any that I saw where Bay was mad that Daphne was hanging out with John and Kathryn. Not like with Daphne who would get mad that Bay was living with Regina or spending time with Regina.

#switched at birth #bay kennish #daphne vasquez #john Kennish #Kathryn Kennish #regina vasquez #sab

[justanoutlawfic]

It’s bad when I agree with John...

#switched at birth #john kennish

[bonniehooper]

So, is it a rule that D.W. Moffett has to play shitty dads? 

#Brittany Watches HTGAWM #How to Get Away With Murder #d.w. moffett #Switched at Birth #John Kennish

[quinnfebrey]

daphne is literally the worst character on switched at birth except maybe john. kennish genetics??

#* #i can’t stand her oh my god *fletcher voice* makes me wanna hit her when i see her #switched at birth

[themirandalorian]

this is a really little thing I noticed when I was rewatching an episode of Switched at Birth, but I kinda love how during the scene where Toby is talking to John about his breakup with Nikki, John calls him ‘honey’ and ‘sweetie’ when he’s trying to comfort him.

you never really hear fathers use those terms of endearment for their sons (at least I don’t), and idk, it was really refreshing I guess, and just nice to hear.

#switched at birth #john kennish #toby kennish

[weirdsimtown]

John: Aaaay Baaaaaay!

Bay: Dad...no...

#sims 4 #john kennish #bay kennish #switched at birth #sab

[switchedatbirthspoilers]

'Switched at Birth' Creator on Series Finale "Controversy," Scrapped Ending

Lizzy Weiss talks to THR about the all those surprise twists, that last scene and a potential revival.

Switched at Birth ended its five-season run on Tuesday with an eventful 90-minute farewell.

The final episode of the Peabody-winning family drama ended things by looking back at how the series started. The series contained several flashbacks to when the Kennish and Vasquez families – well, almost everyone – found out that Bay (Vanessa Marano) and Daphne (Katie Leclerc) had been switched at birth. At first, it was because Katherine (Lea Thompson) was feeling nostalgic about Regina (Constance Marie) deciding to move out of the guest house. Then, it was because Katherine learned John (D.W. Moffett) had known about the switch before she did – a fight that escalated and de-escalated quickly.

Meanwhile, Daphne stood up to a discriminatory sports surgeon who said she couldn't be a surgeon and be deaf. (And she reunited with Mingo). And despite Travis (Ryan Lane) moving to Japan to pursue a career in baseball, he and Bay decided to continue their relationship long-distance – permanently squashing any chance of her getting back together with Emmett (Sean Berdy).

Regina also figured out her romantic future. In exchange for making Will turn himself in, she offered to raise his son and wait until he got out of prison so they could start their life together in Kansas City. And finally, Toby (Lucas Grabeel) decided to ditch his unfulfilling DJ gigs to some sort of job helping those with disabilities.

After an extended break between seasons four and five – during which time ABC Family became Freeform – and a shortened final season, the final episode was largely one of resolutions rather than cliffhangers.

The Hollywood Reporter spoke with Lizzy Weiss about those finale twists and turns, the scrapped ending viewers didn't see and the possibility of a revival down the road.

The Hollywood Reporter | You mentioned there was a tag you shot at the end of season four that could have served as a series finale. Can you talk a little bit about what it was and why you decided not to use it?

Lizzy Weiss | It would have felt like a double ending. I feel like the emotion of the ending with the big wide aerial shot pulling back on the family and that song… the emotions sort of carried you and then once we tried putting the tag on it, it stopped the emotions. And plus, it was a flashback to the hospital with the girls as newborns and we cast 22-year-old actresses to play young Katherine and young Regina, and it felt like a disappointment to not end on the people that the fans have spent five years with. I hope the network does release it for the fans just in a tweet or a YouTube link because it was cool but it was something that we didn’t end up using.

THR | Another big revelation was that John found out about the switch before Katherine. Had that always been apart of the story for you? How did this twist come about?

LW | To be totally honest, no. When I pitched the show, I was very clear that I planned out that Regina knew and all of the reasons why, and when she found out when Daphne was three, and that she kept it secret so that was kind of baked into the first season. In preparing for the series finale, we watched the pilot again, and we zoned in on that scene in the geneticist's office where Bay and Katherine looked crushed and stunned and as if their worlds have just fallen apart. It was honestly just a choice that D.W. made for John to be the stoic father, but we just zoomed in and thought, 'Gosh, it almost looks like he's not surprised.' So just in the fun of the room, we spun off that: We can't mess with the mythology of Regina. We can't undo the whole show in one last episode, but what if hew knew a week before or two weeks before?  

The real intention of the John-Katherine story no matter what story we told, I knew that the end result would be we are re-validating them as the heart and the center of the show in terms of the family, the strength, that is the Kennish home. So we needed to shake them a little and then remind everyone they will keep getting through whatever is thrown at them. it just seemed fun to have.

THR | Another big moment in the finale was Daphne having to deal with the blatant discrimination of Dr. Bannon and her subsequent decision to stand up to him. Why in the final episode did you want to give her this obstacle for her?

LW | We definitely had had a couple run-ins with the face of authority who had questioned her. I felt like we really need to raise the stakes if we're going to bring this up again. We’re going to have to do it with someone who's a lot more blunt about it, and she hasn’t encountered that kind of resistance that much. These kind of doctors are out there, and this kind of arrogance. I always like to raise good questions and these are fair, realistic questions: How exactly would you be a surgeon? How would it work? Though he does it in a very gruff, ignorant way, he's asking questions that she's got to answer. Well, with technology, well, with an interpreter, well, with a little bit of help – and we researched, there are all of these tools. That's part of the message of this show, is that sometimes you do have to make accommodations, you may have to slow down, you may have to use your phone to text, you may have to learn a few signs, you may have to do things a little differently and that's OK in this world. We don't have to make the mainstream world the only way to communicate or live or have jobs. I just liked raising that one last time in a really big, potent, loud way.

I have a friend of a friend who was a doctor and got into a bike accident and became paraplegic and he's still a doctor. You figure it out, it doesn't mean it's easy. That's always been the message of the show: The world needs to bend a little bit and get with the program but not everyone's the same and that's OK.

THR | That also kind of relates to Toby's decision to change careers at the end. How did you decide on that ending for him?

LW | That was always the plan and we were going to take it a little slower if we had had more episodes. We were going to kind of move him along but I think it worked really nicely to have it be an epiphany in that moment. I just loved the idea of this kid changing his life so profoundly not just as a father, but as a person.

THR | One of the biggest surprises in the finale was that Bay and Emmett ended up not getting back together. How did you come to that decision?

LW | Bay and Emmett had true love, but it was first love and they went through a lot together as you do when you're young. Maybe it's just timing, maybe things would be different if she had met Emmett at 21 instead of Travis, but they couldn't shake all of the things that they'd been through. And secondly, the intention of the second-to-last episode, where Bay pushes Travis to tell his mother the truth about what happened was purely intended to really show that this couple is the real thing. They can weather these kinds of storms as adults, that's an adult relationship right there. Emmett was this lovely, romantic, who would do these big romantic things for her but Travis and she are going through hard stuff and getting through it.

The intention of the montage was really to honor Bay and Emmett for everyone, for me, not just for the fans. I love Bay and Emmett, they were a huge part of the series and it was a nod to anyone who's ever had a very intense first love that they thought they would end up with forever but they don't. When you see that person, it's incredibly powerful, and this is someone who helped define who you are as a human being for the rest of your life but you go your separate ways. I teared up working on that montage; to me it really takes you back to all of those moments with Bay and Emmett. I'm quite sure that there are diehard 'Bemmett' fans who will never forgive me and will always feel like it was a mistake but this is how Bay and Emmett and Travis evolved over the course of all the things that happened.

THR | Can you pinpoint a specific moment in the show where you shifted from having bay end up with Emmett to believing she should end up with Travis?

LW | Just following the truth of the characters and the baggage and just some realities of doing the show with Emmett being in LA and we had to throw Emmett into a bit of a tailspin and it would have been hard to get them back together. I do think there is a jerking around of the fans and the triangle that at some point has to stop. As a fan of my own shows, I don't like that either. You have to know when to let go of the triangle and to make a choice. I think fans get tired of that.

Someone else asked me if you had gotten 10 more episodes, do you think you would have gotten Bay and Emmett back together, and I don't think so. This felt right for where the characters ended up. The truth of the story is the past five seasons ended with Bay not being able to go back, she wanted to go forward. Which isn't to say that Emmett isn't a huge part of who she is. That will be a controversy I'm sure, but there's also a lot of diehard Bay and Travis fans. You're never going to win with everyone and we were quite aware of that.

THR | Regina also makes a big move when she moves out of the guest house and gets back together with Eric, even though he has to go to prison first. Why was this the right way to end her story?

LW | I was so pleased with that twist. Luca was lovely but they weren't really soul mates and Eric always felt like her second soul mate after Angelo. He came with this backstory, we couldn't un-bake that from who Eric was and why he appeared in her life the way he did so we had to send him off last season but everyone really wanted Eric to come back in some way and then we really felt like, 'Oh God, we backed them into a corner.' He has this past, he's committed this felony, he has to leave the country, I can't believe Regina would leave her two daughters and go to another country. That didn't feel right even though that was on the table. Then when we came up with this moment of this flashback where her mom says sometimes you have to do the hard thing to get to the right place. … It felt like a great parallel and a great metaphor to have her come up on her own with this solution. Tell Eric, "Do what you got to do, face the music and I will wait for you." And then of course the beauty of her becoming a mom again, to a boy for the first time, just felt so sweet and it felt like we were spinning her off into a new family.

THR | In the end, Daphne calls Katherine and John mom and dad, respectively. Why did you want to include that?

LW | That was in my back pocket. That's one of the few things that I always wanted to save for the series finale. I just felt like it would be a really big moment and I didn't want to slide it in casually. It's a big deal for Katherine. Katherine's a very traditional mom, her identity was a full-time mom for many years before she went back to work and I feel like she's always been secretly waiting for this moment and wanting it but never asking for it because she thought it would hurt Regina's feelings. It was just so powerful for her to hear it. I don't think Bay will ever call Regina mom. Their relationship always felt a little more aunt-niece, big sister-little sister; they just had a more complicated relationship. Regina's a little less traditional. … I just like the distinction between the girls that way.

THR | You had been tweeting a little while ago about wanting to possibly write characters from Switched at Birth into your next show but you weren’t sure about the legality of it. What is the possibility that we'll see Daphne or Bay or someone else from the SAB universe in the future?

LW | What I learned was it's a little more complicated. You can't really do that. Of course I can use the actors again and I fully intend to, but I thought it would be fun to have Daphne or Travis or Emmett pop up as a cousin to this other character I created and link the shows, but I don't think that's legal.

THR | Well, would you be open to revisiting these characters in some sort of revival down the line? Revivals had become such a big trend in recent years.

LW | If in ten years, it is a trend and the network or some network or all of us are interested, of course. We even joke about it now. It would be fun to revisit who everyone's going to be in 10 years, Bay and Daphne as 35-year-olds or even 30-year-olds is just fun to think about.

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